TOMORROW FIELD 2025 Summer
TOMORROW FIELD launched in 2020 in the Taiza district. This year, marking its fifth, the project will host both Summer and Autumn exhibitions.
For the Summer exhibition, all four unique sites developed to date will be open to the public once again. For the very first time, visitors will gain full access to the TAIZA Residence; an art house which has been a work in progress since 2024. Here, the integration of traditional craftsmanship with modern sensibility utilizing local Kyotango materials will be showcased; the result of a collaborative effort between the fashion designer/contemporary artist AAWAA with mounting and plaster specialists, washi papermaker and TOMORROW.
Visitors will also be treated to view the ongoing creation of a fifth venue: the MIYA Tea House, an art installation co-created by architect and honorary professor of the UNESCO Chair of Earthen Architecture, Building Cultures, and Sustainable Development Anna Heringer, ceramicist Martin Rauch, and TOMORROW. Made with earth from the local land, the structure invites participation from local residents and students to help shape a new “gathering house for the community.”
This year’s visual art piece will feature watercolour painting of Taiza’s landscape by artist Misato Ogihara, reworked and displayed onto printed materials by graphic designer Shin Sobue of cozfish.
Access to all exhibits will be via guided tours. The full schedule will be available online. Tickets go on sale.
Exhibitied works (part of)
DURATION
Saturdays, Sundays, Mondays & National Holidays Between Saturday, August 9 – Monday, September 15 (Holiday), 2025
11:00 AM – 5:00 PM (Last admission: 4:00 PM)
*Closed on Tuesdays to Fridays.
VENUES
TAIZA Studio, SEI TAIZA, TAIZA Residence, Field of Stars
ORGANIZERS
TOMORROW, Japan Arts Council, Agency for Cultural Affairs, Government of Japan
ADMISSION
¥1,000 (All venues included)
Guided tours only / Advanced reservation required
Field of Stars is open and free for self-guided viewing.
COMMISSION
Japan Cultural Expo 2.0 (2025)
SUBSIDY
Morimura Houmeikai Foundation
This exhibition is available on a tour basis, with staff (available in Japanese and English) explaining the background of the exhibited works and the history of the region.
Please specify your preferred time slot and make a reservation.
Advance reservations are required, but participants are welcome to jump in on the day.
Photo: Kim Ilda
Toward peace and tranquility, people attempt various thoughts and actions. Misunderstandings of attempts arise from differing values toward the awe-inspiring higher spirit/nature – above, and greed struggles out of a desperate desire to live and eat.
Music, beautiful food and creations sometimes work on the mind. What can we leave behind for those who will live in the future? What we can leave behind for our families and loved ones are memories. If all we can do for others is to say and do what we can to live better for a better society, are there any differences of opinion at all among those who gather around that desire?
Do the answers we can get by asking an AI outweigh the care for others, the will to pursue a better quality, and the accumulation of aesthetic senses through experience?
We would like to think that disagreements among those who gather under a strong will are as slight as the flickering of a candle flame. The quality of what is produced is determined at the moment when the fluctuation of the mind of the individual to whom the decision is entrusted is set to a precise point before the decision is made.
Each decision is likened to a thread, which, when bound together, becomes the “artistic expression” of TOMORROW FIELD and is delivered to the heart of the recipient.
We pray that the recipients will be pleased with our work, but our unprecedented and unseen expressions often run aground or are shattered.
However, it is also true that we have experienced the reality that a heart that does not give up, and actions that do not give up, can sometimes move people. When you are at a loss for what to do, in Zen practice, you half-open your eyes, look forward a little, and breathe in a relaxed manner. In doing so, one faces one’s mind, and one’s self comes into view.
Fluctuation can feel like the final stage of aligning the mind into one, just like meditation on thought. When we reach this point, we believe it is the right time to entrust important things to the next generation. It is the life itself that is cultivated over a long period of time, just like passing down a village. Artistic and cultural activities, and of course the pursuit of peace and tranquility, will continue like a never-ending journey.
Shuji Nakagawa "Wooden Room" In ancient times, humans live with trees. Although there are not many left like ceramics, people started eating with stones and wooden spoons instead of scooping them out of their hands. At that time, the distance between people and the sky might be closer than now. Nakagawa conceived of a space for sleep where one can face a brief moment of death while looking up at the sky. To regenerates through every sleep and get life force from the tree. This wooden room that feels such a wish dreams of being developed outdoors someday.
Teresita Fernández "Soliloquy (Taiza)" At the estuary of Takano River, Nochigahama coast, a huge basalt monolith “Tateiwa” with a height of 20 meters stands. Inspired by this natural rock that still tells us that there was an eruption here, the artist created a commission work consisting of paintings and three-dimensional objects, entitled “Soliloquy.”